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Rookie Reno Police Officer Richard Jager arrested him for trespassing on that match. Killinger was taken to the Washoe County Detention Facility for fingerprint testing and was determined not to be the man in question, and he was released. He sued the arresting officer in 2025. In a new filing, a district court added the City of Reno as a defendant with a municipal liability claim. The lawsuit alleges that officers have made thousands of unlawful arrests based on facial recognition matches because they have not been properly trained. The Peppermill casino settled with Killinger before trial.","tags":[],"date_detected":null,"near_miss":null,"root_cause":"oversight","root_cause_detail":null,"failure_class_detail":null,"responsible_party":null,"adversarial_actor":null,"input_provenance":null,"time_to_contain":null,"operations_paused":null,"remediation":null,"precursor_events":null},"impact":{"direct_loss_usd":null,"remediation_hours":null,"records_exposed":null,"third_parties_affected_count":null,"severity":"moderate","severity_because":"Test: moderate, a third party affected with bounded scope. Fact: the sources name one arrested man, Jason Killinger; the thousands-of-arrests figure is an allegation in the lawsuit and is not counted here.","harm_class":[],"affected_description":null,"protected_class_involved":null,"data_categories_exposed":[],"loss_range_usd":null,"reversibility":null,"downstream_exposure_count":null},"evidence":{"sources":[{"url":"https://www.kolotv.com/2026/04/08/man-sues-city-reno-over-use-facial-recognition/","publisher":"KOLO | 8 News Now","date":"2026-04-08","type":"press","title":"Man sues City of Reno over use of facial recognition - KOLO | 8 News Now","archived_url":null,"attachment":"first_report"},{"url":"https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/lawsuit-alleges-systemic-misuse-of-facial-recognition-by-reno-police","publisher":"Biometric Update","date":"2026-04-09","type":"press","title":"Lawsuit alleges systemic misuse of facial recognition by Reno police - Biometric Update","archived_url":null,"independence":"independent"}],"per_field_confidence":{"event.date_occurred":"C","event.root_cause":"C","event.incident_class":"D","impact.severity":"D","impact.severity_because":"D","event.summary":"C","system.autonomy_level":"D","system.deployment_context":"D","event.trigger":"D","event.detection_method":"D","context.country":"D","system.developer":"D","event.date_disclosed":"D","context.denominator_available":"D"},"field_citations":{"event.date_occurred":[{"source_index":1,"quote":"A man named Jason Killinger was exiting Peppermill casino in Reno in September of 2023 when he was stopped by security, which had been alerted by a facility facial recognition system about a possible match to a banned individual."}],"event.root_cause":[{"source_index":1,"quote":"Reno PD does not have a policy related to this regularly-used biometric technology."}],"event.incident_class":[{"source_index":1,"quote":"A lawsuit filed against the Reno Police Department alleges that officers have made thousands of unlawful arrests based on facial recognition matches because they have not been properly trained on how to use biometrics."}],"impact.severity":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Killinger was arrested and taken to the Washoe County Detention Facility for fingerprint testing to confirm his identity."}],"impact.severity_because":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"Killinger was arrested and taken to the Washoe County Detention Facility for fingerprint testing to confirm his identity."}],"event.summary":[{"source_index":1,"quote":"A man named Jason Killinger was exiting Peppermill casino in Reno in September of 2023 when he was stopped by security, which had been alerted by a facility facial recognition system about a possible match to a banned individual."},{"source_index":1,"quote":"Rookie Reno Police Officer Richard Jager was called, and as he says he has done up to hundreds of times in the past, based on Reno PD policy, arrested the individual for trespassing based on the face biometrics match."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Killinger was arrested and taken to the Washoe County Detention Facility for fingerprint testing to confirm his identity."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Killinger was determined to not be the man in question and he was released."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"In 2025, he sued the arresting officer, alleging fabrication of evidence and excessive force."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"In a new filing, a district court has granted his request to add the City of Reno as a new defendant in the case, as well as a new municipal liability claim against the city."},{"source_index":1,"quote":"A lawsuit filed against the Reno Police Department alleges that officers have made thousands of unlawful arrests based on facial recognition matches because they have not been properly trained on how to use biometrics."},{"source_index":1,"quote":"Peppermill casino has already settled a lawsuit with Killinger before it went to trial."}]},"notes_on_gaps":"The sources do not name the facial recognition software provider, its model, or its version, so no system fields are given. The sources do not describe an AI agent, so event.agent_involved, failure class and autonomy fields are left out. The 2023-09 date comes from the press report citing the lawsuit; the 2026-04-08 disclosure date is the date of the first news report, which is my judgement. Thousands of arrests is an allegation in the lawsuit, not a verified count, and the twelfth-case figure concerns other incidents, so neither is used. Incident class operational_error and root cause oversight are my judgement from the training allegations. Severity moderate is my judgement from one third party with bounded scope. The sources do not state the settlement date or the order of the court ruling relative to other events, so those timeline entries are undated or ordered by my judgement. No remediation is recorded because the sources' statements about the officer's later training are not quoted here in a usable form. Detection method, trigger and financial impact are not stated and are left out. 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